Our Tasks
The Digital Office, including Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), is the central unit that supports KIT in its digitalization efforts and advises and supports the management level in its responsibilities in this regard.
The Digital Office acts as an overarching mediator in terms of the management level’s responsibility. It is assigned to the Executive Board Department “Digitalization and Sustainability” and supports the Vice President Prof. Dr. Kora Kristof in her responsibility for the digitalization area of action in the KIT 2025 Strategy.
The Digital Office thus generally examines the possibilities and benefits of digitalization for KIT and drives them forward. The technical requirements and users’ needs are recorded and taken into account for the further development of KIT’s digital infrastructure.
Our Offerings
The Digital Office:
- advises and supports the Executive Board and the heads of divisions in shaping digitalization and information security issues.
- Together with the CIO, is responsible for the development and implementation of the digitalization strategy as part of the KIT 2025 Strategy.
- is responsible for creating structures (e.g. committees) for setting and coordinating digitalization topics and projects.
- provides and maintains an overview of digitalization at KIT and is the universal point of contact - in the sense of a pilot function - for digitalization topics at KIT.
- takes up user requirements, current developments and interests and brings them to the right place at KIT in a targeted manner.
- advises and supports in setting up and preparing digitization projects.
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Which topics are affected by digitalization at KIT?
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Information security should adequately protect an organization’s information. How does KIT safeguard the fundamental values of confidentiality, integrity and availability?
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Digitalization is part of the KIT 2025 Strategy as a strategic area of action. What goals and measures is KIT pursuing?
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How does KIT guarantee all stakeholder groups are involved in the processing of upcoming and future digitalization topics?
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Hannah Bachus joined our team as a project officer on October 1, 2024. The project of ITAS, DO and SCC will identify future-oriented topics and potentials at the interface of digitalization and sustainability, integrate them into processes and communicate the results.
Welcome to our team!
12.09.2024 The recently published white paper “Cultural Change” (German only) by bwUni.digital outlines recommendations for successful digital transformation. The pivotal point for successful change is and remains the organizational culture and its ability to change. The document was developed in a bwUni.digital think tank, in which Maren Wetzel-Vollmer (PEBA) played a key role.
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10.09.2024 A new training series developed at KIT aims to strengthen AI skills at universities. For their concept, Svenja Geißler from the Center for Media Learning at KIT and Dr. Matthias Bandtel from the Network "Digitalization of Higher Education Baden-Württemberg" (HND-BW) receive a fellowship for digital higher education in Baden-Württemberg.
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02.09.2024 The Helmholtz Software Award, presented for the first time, goes to the research software openCARP in the Newcomer category. Its main developer PD Dr.-Ing. Axel Loewe (Institute of Biomedical Engineering, IBT) leads an interdisciplinary research team dedicated to develop computational models of the human heart. The award ceremony will take place at the Helmholtz Information and Data Science Incubator Conference in November 2024.
Further informationYou can find further news about digitalization at KIT in our news list.